Granville Redmond
California Poppy Fieldcirca 1926

On view:

Geffen Galleries, Earth and Water

Oil painting of a valley landscape with a carpet of orange and yellow wildflowers in the foreground, dark green trees, and two blue mountain peaks under a pale aqua sky, painted in short mosaic-like brushstrokes

Artist or Maker: Granville Redmond
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1871-1935
Title: California Poppy Field
Place Made: United States
Date Made: circa 1926
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 40 1/4 × 60 1/4 in. (102.24 × 153.04 cm) Frame: 44 3/4 × 64 3/4 × 3 1/4 in. (113.67 × 164.47 × 8.26 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Raymond Griffith
Accession Number: 40.7
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Curatorial Notes: Among the most prominent artists working in Los Angeles at the turn of the twentieth century, Granville Redmond developed a reputation for his paintings of golden poppies—California’s state flower. In this exceptionally large example, he worked on a rough-hewn canvas to add texture to the scene. He skillfully contrasted the warm orange hues of the foreground flowers with the cool blues of the distant mountains, capturing a peak springtime bloom when wildflowers carpet Southern California’s landscape.
Provenance: Raymond Griffith, Beverly Hills, Calif. to 1940.

Raymond Griffith (1895–1957), Beverly Hills, gifted 1940 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1993, vol. 31, no. 1-11 (January-November, 1993).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.
Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall. Painting and Sculpture in Los Angeles, 1900-1945. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980.
LACMA: Obras Maestras 1750-1950: Pintura Estadounidense Del Museo De Arte Del Condado De Los Angeles. Mexico, D.F.: Museo Nacional de Arte, 2006.
The California pop-up book. New York: Universe Pub. in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
Shields, Scott A., and Mildred Albronda. Granville Redmond: the Eloquent Palette. Portland, OR: Pomegranate; Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 2020.

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Granville Redmond
California Poppy Fieldcirca 1926

On view:

Geffen Galleries, Earth and Water

Artist or Maker: Granville Redmond
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1871-1935
Title: California Poppy Field
Place Made: United States
Date Made: circa 1926
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 40 1/4 × 60 1/4 in. (102.24 × 153.04 cm) Frame: 44 3/4 × 64 3/4 × 3 1/4 in. (113.67 × 164.47 × 8.26 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Raymond Griffith
Accession Number: 40.7
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: American Art
Curatorial Notes: Among the most prominent artists working in Los Angeles at the turn of the twentieth century, Granville Redmond developed a reputation for his paintings of golden poppies—California’s state flower. In this exceptionally large example, he worked on a rough-hewn canvas to add texture to the scene. He skillfully contrasted the warm orange hues of the foreground flowers with the cool blues of the distant mountains, capturing a peak springtime bloom when wildflowers carpet Southern California’s landscape.
Provenance: Raymond Griffith, Beverly Hills, Calif. to 1940.

Raymond Griffith (1895–1957), Beverly Hills, gifted 1940 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1993, vol. 31, no. 1-11 (January-November, 1993).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003.
Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.
Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall. Painting and Sculpture in Los Angeles, 1900-1945. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980.
LACMA: Obras Maestras 1750-1950: Pintura Estadounidense Del Museo De Arte Del Condado De Los Angeles. Mexico, D.F.: Museo Nacional de Arte, 2006.
The California pop-up book. New York: Universe Pub. in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
Shields, Scott A., and Mildred Albronda. Granville Redmond: the Eloquent Palette. Portland, OR: Pomegranate; Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 2020.